JUDGE RICHARD LOWRY writes to THE TIMES

JUDGE RICHARD LOWRY writes to THE TIMES

October 29, 2002

The TIMES online

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JUDGE RICHARD LOWRY, 78 , wrote..........
" I was at the Junior Bar for 19 years. Then I was a Silk for nine years. Then I was a judge for nearly 18 years. Quite a long life doing law. My wife became a judge before me so she was Judge Lowry and I was Judge Richard Lowry. I remember as a young man thinking they will never get rid of capital punishment and they will never get rid of corporal punishment — certainly not in schools — and they will never liberalise the law on homosexuality, and then suddenly these things all happened. Personally, I would legalise or decriminalise cannabis. It is difficult to see a country, let alone the world, accepting that. But it might suddenly happen. So things you think will never happen do sometimes happen."